We're pretty sure, judging by google maps, that Queenstown is the furthest south in the world that we have ever been, and it will be the furthest south that we go during our travels as from now everything we do is slowly working our way north back home. We arrived in Queenstown in the pitch black following our tour to Mount Cook, so all we could really make out from the bus was the lights of the houses and then the main road as we crossed over to get to our hoste...

We were up early again today (well, only 6am so not as early as other starts have been) to get down to the bus stop in time for our tour to Mount Cook. The bus started off driving through the city and the outskirts (where a lot of businesses moved after the earthquake, so it was pretty busy at 7.30am) to get onto the highway going south along the coast. We drove through the Canterbury Plains for around an hour and a half, and it was interesting to see at first as...

We were up extremely early, the earliest start of our travels so far (3.30am!) to get our taxi to the airport, and we had a 2 hour flight down to Brisbane before we changed planes and finally left Australia to go to New Zealand. The flight to Christchurch took less than 3 hours, so we only just had time to watch a short movie (the new Paddington film - it was really funny!) before we were preparing to land, and we got down through the cloud cover to get our first...